ADVANCES IN COLLABORATION TO LEVERAGE RE NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE

ADVANCES IN COLLABORATION TO LEVERAGE R&E NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE BETWEEN AFRICA, LATIN AMERICA AND THE U. S. Heidi Morgan – Sr. Computer Scientist, Information Science Institute at the University of Southern California (USC USA) Len Lotz - Executive Officer, Tertiary Education and Research Network (TENET South Africa) Luis Eliecer Cadenas - Executive Director, Latin American Cooperation of Advanced Networks (Red. CLARA) Aluizio Hazin - Engineering and Operation, Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP Brazil)

Outline • South Africa NREN Connectivity(TENET/SANRe. N) • Updates on Am. Light Ex. P & Atlantic. Wave SDX (FIU CIARA) • New connection over Am. Light-SACS (Red. CLARA) • Updates by RNP, the Brazilian National Education and Research Network 2

The SA NREN = TENET & SANRe. N TENET SANRe. N • Created in 2000 as a non-profit company. Membership is primarily universities (all 26) and research institutions, but serves a much wider constituency (TVET Colleges and School Networks) • Created in 2006 as a business unit in the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research • Funded through cost recovery from beneficiary Institutions. • Operates the network deployed by SANRe. N, but also deploys some network functions and components • Delivers services • Funded through a State grant (Department of Science and Technology) • Designs, acquires and implements networks and network components, from metro to international level • Develops and incubates services 3

SA NREN Connectivity …. 4

Ubuntu. Net peering at the Exchange Point in Cape Town • SA NREN (TENET and SANRe. N) operates an exchange point in Cape Town – ZAOXI. • SA NREN has ownership of 7. 4% of the WACS cable allowing it to light capacity between any landing stations on the route from Cape Town to London. • AARCLight and Am. Light have a collaborative partnership with SA NREN. • Ubuntu. Net is now connected to ZAOXI. SA NREN carries Ubuntu. Net Member traffic from their South African POPs to the Exchange Point and thereby opens the path to Fortaleza and Miami. • Once an exchange point is established in Luanda, SA NREN can light capacity between ZAOXI and the new exchange point using WACS capacity. • Collaborative partners can utilize capacity as needed on the SACS cable, WACS cable, AARCLight etc. to connect to Am. Light in Fortaleza, ZAOXI in Cape Town or any other connected Exchange point. • SA NREN’s WACS connectivity may be extended to reach other landing stations to add new collaborative partners to the project. This opportunity is being discussed among interested parties and Angola-Lagos-London could be a possible starting point. 5

Americas-Africa Lightpaths Express and Protect (Am. Light-Ex. P) The goal of the newly funded NSF project (Award #2029283) is to operate and continuously improve the suite of production and experimental network connections between the USA, Latin America and Africa: • Evolving the Am. Light-Ex. P SDN Controller: With the existing infrastructure, Am. Light has presence in 5 countries, 10 data centers, photonics, and a forwarding layer that includes 25+ 100 Gbps links. On top of this complex infrastructure, many services are provided, such as L 2 VPNs, L 3 VPNs, cloud services, R&E IP Transit, including dynamic services and testbeds. Am. Light will operate through multiple SDN controllers using many southbound protocols. • Evolving the Am. Light-Ex. P physical infrastructure: The upgraded network infrastructure will support new high-demand SLA-based science drivers. (NSF Award # ACI-1451018 & Award # ACI 2029283) 6

Americas-Africa Lightpaths Express and Protect (Am. Light-Ex. P) (NSF Award # ACI-1451018 & Award # ACI 2029283) 7

Map is available to the community to highlight the locations Am. Light serves, the network topology, and the per link traffic utilization 8

Atlantic. Wave-SDX A Distributed Experimental SDX Supporting Research, Experimental Deployments, and Interoperability Testing at Global Scale GOALS: To build a distributed SDX between the U. S. and S. America • To support a dramatic increase in south-north science flows • To integrate the SDN infrastructures at AMPATH, So. X, Southern. Light, and Andes. Light open exchange points To enable domain scientists to reserve network resources through a multi-domain SDX by • Simplifying the interface for domain scientists to request network resources • Providing interfaces to program the forwarding plane to respond to application requirements (NSF Award #1451024 & Award #2029278 ) 9

Atlantic. Wave-SDX A Distributed Experimental SDX Supporting Research, Experimental Deployments, and Interoperability Testing on Global Scale Atlantic. Wave-SDX Features • • • In-band Management Plane Authentication via CILogon Point-to-Point Connections Point-to-Multipoint Connections Bandwidth Reservation Failure Handling Users (network operators and domain scientists), and applications can • Request end-to-end science network services from the AW-SDX controller • Consume end-to-end services composed by the AW-SDX controller (NSF Award #1451024 & Award #2029278 ) 10

Red. CLARA • Red. CLARA is the regional research and education network in Latin America. • It connects eleven national research and education networks. • Cooperation with this project has strengthened the connectivity south to north increasing the infrastructure available for Latin American Research Communities. • The investments made by the project increase efficiency and effectivity of the network. 11

Red. CLARA • As part of the global research and education network community, the new link to Africa increase cooperation opportunities with the African scientist. • Red. CLARA signed a cooperation agreement with Ubuntunet Alliance to explore and expand collaboration opportunities. • It provides, altogether with the Bella Project, a significant network, augmenting cooperation opportunities between Europe, USA, Latin America, and Africa. 12

Red. CLARA and BELLA • The new link with Africa provides a backup route to the Bella subsea cable that will connect in a direct link Europe with Latin America. • Bella terrestrial project increases the connectivity inside Latin America, to make available and resilient the connections of the NRENs to the international links. 13

Red. CLARA: Intercontinental access for Latin American NRENs (Project BELLA) • The delivery of Nx 100 G connectivity using the new Ella. Link cable (Brazil-Portugal) in 2021 also provides Nx 100 G connectivity between Europe and several NRENs in South America • GXPs (Global Exchange Points) in Fortaleza and São Paulo provide support for traffic to Africa via SACS, as well as to the US via Amlight Exp.

RNP backbone network and connections in 2021 (https: //www. rnp. br/en) • Brazil is the World’s 5 th largest country, and 6 th most populous at 209 M in 2018. The capital is Brasília and the official language is Portuguese. Straddling the Equator, the climate is tropical and subtropical. • RNP, the Brazilian NREN, has operated an R&E backbone network with government support since 1992. • Each state and the national capital has a point of presence (Po. P) on the backbone network, known as the Ipê network (Rede Ipe), which is currently being upgraded to 100 G by 2021. More than 1500 sites are connected, and, in more than 40 cities, by means of RNP’s own metro networks. • Terrestrial links to Argentina and Paraguay; other external traffic via Red. Clara and throufg Global Exchange Points (GXP) in São Paulo (So. L) and Fortaleza (SAX), in collaborations with FIU CIARA, Tenet/Sanren, Géant) 15

RNP’s Global Exchange Points (GXPs) SAX and So. L in 2021 SAX (South America e. Xchange) – Fortaleza • Interconnection of the Amlight-Exp (200 G Monet) and Amlight-Protect (100 G SAC/LAN) with the establishment of a 100 G ring between the sites. • perf. SONAR node with 100 G capability • Reconfiguration of the nodes into a single domain, and adoption of EVPN VPWS* in order to simplify the setup of virtual circuits. So. L (Southern. Light) – São Paulo – jointly with ANSP • Integration of the Juniper node with the Fortaleza equipment to create a single MPLS domain • Acquisition of the new generation of Amlight SDN switches to manage part of the international connections. 16 * EVPN VPWS: Ethernet Virtual Private Networks – Virtual Private Wire Services SAX So. L

Heidi Morgan - Information Science Institute at the University of Southern California (USC USA) - hlmorgan@isi. edu Aluizio Hazin - Engineering and Operation at Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP Brazil) - aluizio. hazin@rnp. br Len Lotz - Executive Officer, Tertiary Education and Research Network (TENET South Africa) - len@tenet. ac. za Luis Eliecer Cadenas - Executive Director, Latin American Cooperation of Advanced Networks (Red. CLARA) - luiseliecer. cadenas@redclara. net THANK YOU! Julio Ibarra - Assistant VP of Technology Augmented Research, Florida International University (FIU) Jeronimo Bezerra - Assistant Director, Chief Network Engineer, Florida International University (FIU) Luis Fernandez Lopez - Principal Investigator of the Academic Network at São Paulo (ANSP Brazil) Vasilka Chergarova - Research Coordinator, Florida International University (FIU) Donald A. “Chip” Cox III - Research Assistant Professor Department of Physics & Astronomy Vanderbilt University. (USA) Siju Mammen - Head of Network Engineering at the South African Research Network (SANRe. N South Africa) Michael Stanton - Network Scientist at Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP Brazil) 17